More obvious/bolder links, noted!

Thanks for the response and I guess so long as the ‘community spotlight’ remains focused on the community–as a whole–there is nothing wrong with patting youself on the back and playing a little show and tell. I understand that even Sony employees can be passionate gamers so, yes, I was certainly concerned (upset) about the ‘new direction’ this feature on the ps blog was headed. My point is that you guys (Rey, Morgan, Grace…et al) are the face of the PS blog and have your fingerprints all over it so I admit I was worried you guys were going to take away the ONLY feature that highlights the rest of the community to make it all about yourselves. I’m sorry if I was mistaken; however, that remains to be seen. All that said, I respectfully request that you keep the link to submit user made content in bold front and center on future installments of the ps blog spotlight feature.

As for the Blogcast, I cannot speak as to whether it might make the jump to video or not here, but it’s always a possibility. I can understand the difficulty to be able to enjoy it if there’s a hearing issue as a hurdle. Either way, I’ll share this insight with the Blogcast team.

Anyway, thanks for reading and being here with us.

I hope to see some of everyone’s creativity in the future.

It does feel sometimes like the blog is way behind in news, I’ll hear about things on a random msg board weeks before anything is announced on the blog sometimes, so seeing another ‘non-news’ post was odd to me.

As for the Blogcast, it does have some great info, but it’s also an hour long thing you have to listen to. The EU uses a video blog that’s half the length, which also lets you skip ahead, visually seeing what topic is coming up.

For someone like me with hearing problems, listening to the blogcast is next to impossible even when I have that much free time (my main hearing issue, beyond not hearing well, is a difficulty distinguishing between voices/hard time following conversations/etc…).

Will the NA blogcast ever switch to video or release a text based log/transcript of the important news?

Personally news/updates/major announcements are the only reason I have to come to the blog, but I can see your point for this post now.

As for the Calendar links, we now list official events (like tournaments), user-generated events hosted by our official forum MVPs and Home Community Volunteers, and other official events that are put together in cooperation with 3rd party game studios and developers and communities. It’s a mix of great stuff. The full calendar may always be found here: http://us.playstation.com/community/

As for more news, the blog is full of that already and the Blogcast does add a wonderful bit of commentary in that regard too, but we know that most of you want a bit more than just news all the time. Some people want to get a little deeper into their gaming lifestyle than just staying current on news topics.

You can also bet that in future posts there will be links curated that may related to gaming news that has meaning for the gaming community. It’s all meant to be a helpful resource going forward.